Put the long and short location descriptions into a 'locations' data structure.

They're renamed 'small' and 'big' to avoid colliding with C reserved words.

init.c

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ void initialise(void)
 
     for (i=1; i<=LOCSIZ; i++) {
 	game.abbrev[i]=0;
-	if (!(long_location_descriptions[i] == 0 || KEY[i] == 0)) {
+	if (!(locations[i].description.big == 0 || KEY[i] == 0)) {
 	    k=KEY[i];
 	    if(MOD(labs(TRAVEL[k]),1000) == 1)COND[i]=2;
 	}

main.c

@@ -936,9 +936,9 @@ static bool do_command(FILE *cmdin)
     for (;;) {
 	if (game.loc == 0)
 	    croak(cmdin);
-	char* msg = short_location_descriptions[game.loc];
+	char* msg = locations[game.loc].description.small;
 	if (MOD(game.abbrev[game.loc],game.abbnum) == 0 || msg == 0)
-	    msg=long_location_descriptions[game.loc];
+	    msg=locations[game.loc].description.big;
 	if (!FORCED(game.loc) && DARK(game.loc)) {
 	    /*  The easiest way to get killed is to fall into a pit in
 	     *  pitch darkness. */

newdungeon.py

@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ def c_escape(string):
     string = string.replace("'", "\\'")
     return string
 
+def quotewrap(string):
+    """Wrap a string in double quotes."""
+    return '"' + string + '"'
+
 def write_regular_messages(name, h, c):
 
-    if name != "short_location_descriptions":
     h += "enum {}_refs {{\n".format(name)
     for key, text in dungeon[name]:
         h += "  {},\n".format(key)
@@ -48,8 +51,16 @@ typedef struct {
   char** longs;
 } object_description_t;
 
-extern char* long_location_descriptions[];
-extern char* short_location_descriptions[];
+typedef struct {
+  char* small;
+  char* big;
+} descriptions_t;
+
+typedef struct {
+  descriptions_t description;
+} location_t;
+
+extern location_t locations[];
 extern object_description_t object_descriptions[];
 extern char* arbitrary_messages[];
 extern char* class_messages[];
@@ -65,13 +76,36 @@ c = """#include "{}"
 
 for name in [
         "arbitrary_messages",
-        "long_location_descriptions",
-        "short_location_descriptions",
         "class_messages",
         "turn_threshold_messages",
 ]:
     h, c = write_regular_messages(name, h, c)
 
+h += "enum locations_refs {\n"
+c += "location_t locations[] = {\n"
+for key, data in dungeon["locations"]:
+    h += "  {},\n".format(key)
+
+    try:
+        short = quotewrap(c_escape(data["description"]["short"]))
+    except AttributeError:
+        short = "NULL"
+    try:
+        long = quotewrap(c_escape(data["description"]["long"]))
+    except AttributeError:
+        long = "NULL"
+
+    c += """  {{
+    .description = {{
+      .small = {},
+      .big = {},
+    }},
+  }},
+""".format(short, long)
+
+c += "};\n\n"
+h += "};\n\n"
+
 h += "enum object_descriptions_refs {\n"
 c += "object_description_t object_descriptions[] = {\n"
 for key, data in dungeon["object_descriptions"]: